Femke Snelting: I think Peter Lunenfeld demonstrated quite clearly that...

Hayo Wagenaar

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Femke Snelting: I think Peter Lunenfeld demonstrated quite clearly that when you want to talk about the history of the web you can’t start off with looking at design portfolios. You have to try and include everything else that’s happening out there. So I won’t make this long because we need time to discuss and [...]

Anne Pascual: Thank you all for being here. Thank you...

Schoenerwissen/OfCD

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Anne Pascual: Thank you all for being here. Thank you for inviting us. In the next minutes we would like to focus on the visual aspect of web design as beautiful structures. Due to this subject we will show you quite a lot of images, actually screenshots of web sites. So you will leave this [...]

Helen Petrie: Okay can everyone hear me? My name is...

Helen Petrie

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Helen Petrie: Okay can everyone hear me? My name is Helen Petrie, I live in London but I am actually an Australian, and I come neither from the new media world nor from the computer world. I’m actually a psychologist by training, a cognitive psychologist but I’ve always loved computers and I’ve used Apple Macintosh [...]

Steven Pemberton: Okay, my name is Steven Pemberton. When I...

Steven Pemberton

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Steven Pemberton: Okay, my name is Steven Pemberton. When I go to international conferences and give talks people say “oh you’re Dutch! You speak really good English!” And so I say “well actually my mother was English”, or I say “well I lived there for a while”, but the fact of it is I am [...]

Geert Lovink: Danny O’Brien is the editor of a newsletter...

Danny O’Brien

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Geert Lovink: Danny O’Brien is the editor of a newsletter that looks into new media scandals, rants, and the latest in hi-tech industry in the UK. The site is called NTK.net, Need To Know, and besides that he is also a columnist and this is the way he makes money. His real passion is to [...]

Java™: reading, writing and running the Web Institute for Cultural...

Adrian Mackenzie

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Java™: reading, writing and running the Web Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, UK a.mackenzie@lancaster.ac.uk The key question this paper asks is: how can we understand the construction of the WWW as a process in time? The Web is the outcome of construction work on an unprecedented scale. It has grown rapidly, and changed its [...]

Matthew Fuller: The next speaker is Franziska Nori, from the...

Franziska Nori

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Matthew Fuller: The next speaker is Franziska Nori, from the Kulturbüro digitalcraft.org, which from 1999 to 2003 were responsible for the new media and digital culture department at the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts. digitalcraft is quite a special organization, in that when we were researching this conference we were looking for Museums that were [...]

Matthew Fuller: Peter Lunenfeld is from the Art Center School...

Peter Lunenfeld

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Matthew Fuller: Peter Lunenfeld is from the Art Center School of Design in Pasadena, and, you can see from his bio in the program, the editor of the much renown media works pamphlet series from the MIT Press. He is also author of Snap to Grid one of the first books that I saw as [...]

Peter Luining: I’m: she told my name already. I’m Peter...

Peter Luining

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Peter Luining: I’m: she told my name already. I’m Peter Luining I studied philosophy in Groningen and after my study it didn’t work out to well with getting publications, so I then started to mess with computers around text editors and started to do text animation and at some point a friend of mine proposed [...]

This is an adapted version of Olia Lialina’s text A...

Olia Lialina

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

This is an adapted version of Olia Lialina’s text A Vernacular Web, for the entire content follow the link below. A Vernacular Web The Indigenous and The Barbarians When I started to work on the World Wide Web I made a few nice things that were special, different and fresh. They were very different from [...]